Potato-plow.



Patented Aug. l9, I902.

No. mm.

D. JACKSON. POTATO PLOW.-

1 (Application filed Apr. 1, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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INVENTOR Wnmzsses Patented Aug. l9, I902.

D. JACKSON.

POTATO PLOW.

(Application filed Apr. 1, 1902.)

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(No Modal.)

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' UNITEDSTATES PATENT" OFFICE:

DAVID JACKSON, OF TIOKHILL, ENGLAND.

POTATO-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 707,114, dated August 19, 1902. Application filed April 1, 1902; fierial lilo/100 945. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID JACKSON, a subj ect of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Tickhill, near Rotherham, in the county of York, England, have invented new and useful Improvements-in Potato-Flows, of

which the following is a specification.

The objectof my invention is to construct potato-plows so as to prevent the tops of the potatoes and weeds from collecting thereon and choking the same.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved potato-plow. Fig. 2 is'a plan view of Fig. 1.

I employ a metal beam A, preferably bowshaped at B and having at'its top front end a share or divider C, with extended arms D. The opposite end of the top of the bow is atcached to the ordinary stilts E. Atthe front and lower end of the bow is bolted or other{ wise secured the share F, provided with a fork or grate G, with its extended prongs or fingers H for throwing the.;potat0es on each side out of the way of the machine. Pulleys are provided at J for carrying the apparatus. The divider O'and the shareF are adjustable, as to their positions.

The action is as follows: As the I plow engages each row the divider in front divides the potato-tops and weeds and throws them on each side, so that they are clear of and cannotfchoke or obstruct the fork or how. The said divider C may be applied to other constructions of potato-plow; but I prefer it as applied to the said form of bow-beam.

What I claimas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a plow-beam, and

wheels supporting the front part thereof; of a divider having its point arranged centrally under the plow-beam between the said wheels and having two upwardly'and reawardly in clined arms which project in opposite direc tions, a share, securedto the lower and rear part of: the plow-beam, and spreading prongs projectingrearwardly from the said. share, substantially: as set forth.

In'testimonyfwhereof I have signed my" name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID JACKSON.

Witnesses R. OLIVER J ONES, JOHN E. WALSH. 

